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Interesting thing found in Kansas?

October 18, 2006

Yes you read that correctly, Kansas has given us something to talk about! A new type of ground radar that we’ve seen on one TV show or another for the past few years has located a pallasite meteorite in a Kansas wheat field (imagine that) weighing in at 154lbs. Besides being catagorized as one of the rarest types of meteorites (less than 1% of all found on Earth), the fall has been dated to around 10,000 years ago, a good deal more recent than researches first figured. Full story here.

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